This thread needs more owner-type jeeps. If I could find a reason to own one, I would.
The general idea is the US military left a ton of equipment as they pulled out of the country after World War 2. Filipino hot rodding culture was built around this equipment and cheap engines from japan. These days, the formula is a flat fender body, 13" wheels, some sort of turbo 4, no suspension travel, and no doors. It looks like fun. The top car is in California and was featured by various youtubers a while back. I think the rest are in The Philippines.
Really digging the Filipino hotrods!
I quite enjoy how my lowered(plastic deformation of springs over time) jeep drives. On smooth asphalt a solid front axle isn't "that" bad. Bet you could get it low enough without too much crazy work, especially if you drop to a shorter tire. Weight though... may be harder to remove. They are chunky.
The truly fast "Jeeps" appear to be replica Lotus Sevens with a Jeep grill.
To the OP, it all depends on where you fall between: your desire to have fun, meeting the rules, and what cost/work you're willing to confront. One thing I haven't seen addressed is oil slosh, or are the Jeeps in question so slow that it's not an issue?
In reply to dxman92 :
What I came here to say
Apparently, you move the axle in front of the bumper to get the drop you need.
pinchvalve (Forum Supporter) said:Apparently, you move the axle in front of the bumper to get the drop you need.
Strong Prangler vibes
Roadkill had a pretty cool flat fender Jeeprod. Would be easy enough to build but you would likely be further ahead to start with a streetrod or custom chassis and put Jeep bodywork on it if you wanted it to handle. Its sort of a modern, more cool T-Bucket though, and I dig the look.
To do a modern jeep would be a lot of cutting and throwing away of what makes a Jeep a Jeep, so unless you had one for free in my mind it would make more sense to do a complete ground-up build considering there is no classing advantage to keeping anything stock
pinchvalve (Forum Supporter) said:Apparently, you move the axle in front of the bumper to get the drop you need.
23 T-bucket vibes...
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